Hey friends, we are talking affiliate marketing today! I’m going to show you how to use affiliate marketing to make full time income from home so you can quit your day job!

Excited yet?

Lets kick things off!

What the heck is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is an agreement where you, the affiliate promote a merchant’s product/service and get paid a commission on the successful sale.

Easy concept, right?

Kind of like you’re an online salesperson for products and services. It’s great because it’s flexible, there’s practically unlimited income potential, you can do it part time or full time, you get to be your own boss, and more!

Proof?

Take a look at my numbers..

This is just one of the affiliate programs I belong to!

How much can you make?

You get paid a commission per sale which can range from a few bucks to a few hundred bucks. Right now, the programs I’m in range from $5 to $300. Big range, huh? Most of my commissions fall between $10-$90 with some outliers.

How to get started?

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Ok, so if you’re already sold and ready to get started, first you’ll wanna start a blog.

Once your blog is set up, you wanna find affiliate offers. Here is a quick list of my favorite networks:

Shareasale

Flexoffers

Max Bounty

Peerfly

Affiliate Window

Linkshare

Impact Radius

If you are wondering what an affiliate network is, let me explain.

When you promote your affiliate offer, you can promote direct throug a merchant’s private affiliate program (most likely through their site) or you can apply through a network. A network houses hundreds of affiliate programs for many, many merchants.

So, you simply apply to the network to join (it’s free), then browse offers and apply to various affiliate programs to promote. Once you’re approved, you will have access to affiliate links to share in your blog posts, banners, and more tools.

Hi Gin,
Thanks for your comments. I refer a number of different products. The products that do the best are usually courses and ebooks. My “start a blog” post does pretty well too. I refer hosting on that post. Hope this helps 🙂

Good post but you don’t really get into how to turn readers into purchasers. I have affiliate links on my site but I typically don’t get any sales from them. How do you push your readers to actually buy the products from your links?

Hi Shayna,
Thanks so much for your feedback. I’ll definitely go back and add that in.

To turn readers into purchasers, a few things I do are: write pillar content and give examples/show proof. Writing pillar content: this means writing a super fabulous post. My tutorials tend to do very well because I include video, screenshots of all the steps, easy step by step instructions, etc. A post like this takes forever to write but it’s totally worth it and you get rewarded with loyal readers, high engagement, comments, shares, and affiliate sales! Giving examples and proof is a killer tactic. Nothing is better at showing people that products work than showing proof. Screenshots are really great for this. Readers connect with proof and feel that they may be able to achieve results and give it a try to buying the product. Make sense? Let me know what you think 🙂